Then there was the I saw the great Hank Williams on the stage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and he was all up in drag From his rose red lips to his rhinestone he belted out song after song as he drank a brown paper bag And the he sang of love and pain, so pure perfect reflections of imperfections, it near choked me up But the rest of the show, was kind of And then woke me up
Later on the were silently beating the living crap out of Cincinnati on the TV and a little to the of the great Hank Williams' head As a busty suicide waitress poured him a double shot of 'whatever you got' and laughingly said "I you were dead" The pool cracked as he tilted his head back and told her how he had been a big star but now country music was full of He sat there, in the TV Mascara streaked his
When I was only sixteen old I went from Houston to Abilene a spunky stunningly handsome woman in a Volkswagen Bug She was grown some kids all her own, a divorcee, and I was a man in love We had one 8-track tape but it was of the late great Hank Williams and we sang in two-part "Hey lookin', how's about cookin' up with me"
Back at the bar were calling last call so I the barmaid a credit card to pay up my tab The TV was off and the stage was dark and the great Hank Williams was gone so I her to call me a cab She said if you like I can you a ride, so there we out the door and into the city of brotherly love Into the night, out of In a VW Bug